Giovanni Falcone

...to being the one who actually detonated the explosives. Palermo airport is now also known by the name Falcone-Borsellino Airport in honor of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. A memorial by local sculptor Tommaso Geraci can be found...

In this article: Excellent Cadavers, Paolo Borsellino, Palermo, Mafia, Salvatore Riina, Heroin, Rocco Chinnici, Salvatore Inzerillo, and Palermo International Airport

...written and while the secret negotiations were alleged to have taken place, the Mafia killed two senior anti-Mob magistrates, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in bomb attacks. Authorities at the time feared more attacks but in 1993...

In this article: Mafia, Italy, Antonio Di Pietro, Allegation, Italy of Values, and Paolo Borsellino

...written and while the secret negotiations were alleged to have taken place, the Mafia killed two senior anti-mob magistrates, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in bomb attacks. ARREST OF "BOSS OF BOSSES" ALTERED SCENARIO Authorities...

In this article: Mafia, Italy, Antonio Di Pietro, Allegation, Italy of Values, and Paolo Borsellino

...and served it at the table," Castaldi said. After bomb blasts in Sicily in 1992 killed two leading anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Italy stiffened its laws against top mobsters. One measure limited prison...

In this article: Camorra, Naples, Italy, Spaghetti, Sicily, and Cocaine

...making. 1980 - Bombing of Bologna station kills 84, linked to right-wing extremists. Top anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards killed in car bomb attack. 1993 - Bribery scandal leads to Craxi's...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Italy, Romano Prodi, Northern League, National Alliance, UN, Christian Democrat, and Tax

...homicides, including the masterminding of the Borsellino hit and one three months earlier of another crusading Sicilian prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone. (See pictures of life in Italy.) Riina, who'd led the bloody takeover of the Mafia by the...

In this article: Paolo Borsellino, Mafia, Palermo, Milan, Italy, Corleone, and Florence

...BBC world's documentary of Marco Turco's 2005 documentary Excellent Cadavers is enough to put the chill into you. Thank you Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino and all those who work so hard trying to build a better Italy but in vain. Wake...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Massimo D'Alema, Gianni Letta, Allegation, Naples, Paolo Borsellino, G8, Italy, Christian Democratic, and Recession

Before being transferred to a Rome jail, Gambino was served the original 1980 arrest warrant signed by Giovanni Falcone, one of Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutors. Falcone was killed by the Sicilian mob in a 1992 bomb attack, and Gambino's...

In this article: Carlo Gambino, Italy, Rome, Mafia, Heroin, United States, Washington, and New Jersey

The killing of the fearless Sicilian magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino is the great watershed in relations between the Italian state and Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mob. Before those killings, accommodation was the rule. The...

In this article: Mafia, Paolo Borsellino, Palermo, Giulio Andreotti, Salvo Lima, Sicily, and Lima

...says politicians negotiated with gangs even as judges were bombed The scene after the car-bomb assassination of anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone The murders of two courageous Sicilian judges in 1992 shocked Italy to the core, scandalised...

In this article: Mafia, Giovanni Brusca, Italy, Salvatore Lima, Paolo Borsellino, Bernardo Provenzano, Giulio Andreotti, and Palermo